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Doctor Feelgood · Administrator

Hi - welcome.

Looks like some good stuff! The memory could be addressed with a number of products. Lots of good stuff out there right now. While I haven't used any Dominator modules, one thing to consider is that you pay extra for the fancy heatspreader, and it may not be worth it. There is plenty of good memory, even at 1066MHz, that might be less $$.

Also, just a suggestion, but many people like the Tuniq Tower 120 as a CPU cooler, so it might be worth considering.

Finally, I was never a fan of the Raptor drives... especially now that they are still SATA 1.5 Gbps, while the rest of the world has been SATA 3 Gbps for a while now. I'd either get another Barracuda, or something else at 3Gbps and 16MB cache for speed and reliability (and probably less money than the Raptor).